May 2008
Michael Arrington tells Twitter’s ex-CTO to suck... →
‘Enuf said
Conversation Tags: Michael Arrington, Twitter, Blaine Cook
Professionalism, Programming, and Punditry and... →
Jeff Atwood has one of his best posts in months that was inspired by Alastair Rankine’s post “Blogging Horror” explaining why he’s unsubscribed from Jeff’s blog. I too, have been less…
Nolo Contendere →
Readers have been asking — demanding even — an update on Team Cringely, my plan to win the Google Lunar X Prize and give my kids an inheritance worth fighting over. So this week I have to announce…
Update Firefox’s search bar with new Google... →
Have you noticed the new Google search favicon? I am not sure if Google intends to keep it forever but I like the refresh.
You can update the Firefox’s default Google search plugin to show…
A Commenter’s Rights →
When you leave a comment on a comment, how often do you wonder what your rights are? Not too often, I’d guess. Over the years, it has become an accepted fact that content contributed to a…
Beta != Buggy →
In the olden days of programming, back when you had to code by candlelight, it was considered acceptable to release beta versions that contained tons of bugs. For the most part, people avoided…
Strong Opinions, Weakly Held →
I seldom pause to answer criticism of my blog. If I did, I’d have time for little else in the course of the day, and no time for constructive work. But occasionally I’ll encounter a particularly…
Choosing composition over inheritance: yet another... →
A friend of mine recently asked me if I though that having an inheritance hierarchy with a depth of 10 classes was acceptable or not. I don’t think it is. If you take a class at the bottom, any…
FriendFeed Friday Tips #3: Take Advantage of... →
By popular demand, I’ve been asked by other FriendFeed users to highlight how I use the popular social lifestreaming site. So far the series has covered the “Hide” function, and the…
SubSonic: Update on 3.0 Plans →
We haven’t even pushed 2.1 yet and people are on me about plans for 3.0, suggesting that SubSonic must be dying :). I’m happy to say that RC1 of 2.1 is coming up very, very soon - 3.0, however, is…
What Would Jesus Twitter? →
We’ve been talking up Twitter—the 140-character message/mini-blog application that’s sweeping the early adopters—a lot in the past few weeks (Oh, and if you’re looking for church…
Government DOS [1] →
Writing to your local Member of Parliament shows the efficiencies of government at their best. You send a letter (an email in my case). I received a letter (paper) from the MP’s office…
With RSS ads is it right to form communities... →
Some of the buzz today is about the word that Google AdSense will start to become available for blog owners who are using Feedburner to handle their RSS feeds. Apparently it will be in…
Why the iPhone is probably one of the worst mobile... →
There is a lot of talk these days about the iPhone. You can’t open TechMeme without seeing yet another rumor about the next generation, 3G, whatever version of the iPhone Apple is about to…
Into the wild: AdSense for feeds →
We’ve been hinting at this for awhile, but it’s finally time to spill the beans: Starting next week, we’ll be rolling out AdSense for feeds to a small group of publishers, in anticipation of a full…
Twitter blames its users →
I almost did a Mike Arrington headline, like the one he used recently against Wired magazine, when he was frustrated that they were calling him out. It would have been so satisfying. But,…
People aren’t going to say what you want... →
I was listening to the L33t Tech Podcast and they mentioned that Twitter developer Alex Paine said that one of the things that’s causing all the stability problems for them is that Twitter was…
NZ Man Convicted Of Assault, Hedgehog Weapon... →
A New Zealand man has been found guilty of assaulting a teenager with (and we’re not making this up) a hedgehog.
According to The Age, Whakatane District Court was told that William…
Every Damn Morning →
Developers Are People Too, Don't Forget →
Sometimes, in the race to declare one service better than another, to be among the first to say one product won’t scale, one product will be killed or eclipsed by another, the rush of feeling…
Letting Twitter Do The Work For You →
One of the greatest things about Twitter to me is that the conversations can help you brainstorm. This is also one of the reasons why I’m addicted to Twitter. I previously wrote about ways…
Column - Now opinion is a disease →
DON’T like Sam Newman? Then argue back. Abuse him if you must. Take away your advertising, or - even better - just turn him off.
Hell, Channel 9 can even sack him from The Footy Show …
Increasing PHP Application Performance with XCache →
Most interpreted programming languages parse source files and translate/compile them into opcode/bytecode that are suitable to be executed in the virtual machine. Python for example, dumps the…
Virtually on parity →
From: Microsoft Propaganda Honcho
To: Microsoft Propaganda Minion
Subject: “Five Misunderstood Features in Windows Vista”
Propaganda Minion,
You remember that a fortnight ago, on my orders, we…
I’m Breaking Up with Twitter →
Ever since I came back from vacation, Twitter has barely been functioning. At this point, it seems I have a better chance at winning the lottery than prediction if I can actually log…
Did Alexa Die and No One Notice? →
The Amazon owned web statistics service Alexa hasn’t been updated for 8 days with no comment from the company. The last date Alexa is showing (at the time of writing) is May 19, with the…
Google Dropped the Ball on Jaiku →
This is a guest post by Shane Perris who blogs at Techwhimsy, “a place for considered ideas, current events in review and explorations of how to do things not just because you need to but just…
Using FriendFeed’s Public Links →
Maybe you haven’t joined FriendFeed yet, but that’s no reason why you still can’t enjoy the resources it provides. A handful of links from the service can act as your own personal…
Power-up the Firefox search bar →
Peers is a nifty Firefox extension developed by The Peers Bros. that brings some cool new tricks for the search bar to help you get faster to what you’re looking for.
Instead of just suggesting…
Rainn Wilson in Transformers 2 →
orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) via /Film shared by 5 people Rainn Wilson has been cast in Michael Bay’s Transformers 2, and will be playing the part of a professor.
“I play a…
Google’s New AJAX Distribution Network →
John Musser via ProgrammableWeb shared by 4 people In yet another interesting API move, Google has just released a simple but useful API for managing AJAX APIs called the AJAX…
Featured Freeware: FeedDemon and NetNewsWire →
These well-crafted, standalone newsreaders makes an ideal choice for both novices who’ve never heard of an RSS feed and advanced users looking to put some oomph and flexibility into their…
My FriendFeed Wishlist →
If you’ve missed the phenomena, FriendFeed is taking the first adopter world by storm. I wasn’t initially convinced, but after asking Louis Gray to convince me, I gave it another shot,…
Disqus' Partner Strategy: Is FriendFeed... →
Today’s news on SezWho’s acquisition of Tejit stirred up, appropriately, a number of conversations around the Web regarding blog commenting platforms, and comparisons between SezWho and
Android Shaping Up Well: First Demo →
Google has demonstrated their Android Mobile Operating system and Android Community was there. One video above but they have a range of shots and other videos on their site. The…
Google’s “Gears” Is Growing →
Google is revving up its “Gears” open source project, with new features and new partners on-board.
Google has announced Gears will be integrated into MySpace’s mail service starting…
Friendfeed is leveling the playing field →
The A-list is changing faster than ever before. Yes, it’s another side benefit of, you guessed it, Friendfeed. Your reputation is everything. You want to bring your talents to the…
Google Earth, meet the browser →
Posted by Paul Rademacher, Technical Lead, Google Earth Browser Plug-in When Google Maps was launched in 2005, few could have guessed the way map mashups would permeate the online world. Online…
Are you on the hunt for icons? →
I am an iconoholic I admit it. It probably comes from my time as a developer always looking for sources of good quality free icons. As the style of icons changed I had to find new places…
Can Microsoft Still Make Something That Is Cool? →
So the blogosphere doesn’t seem all that impressed with the Windows 7 preview at the All Things D conference, to which I would say: of course not, it’s basically shaping up to be “Vista…
Tim Hortons - make sure you count your change →
I don’t normally write about things that happen in my personal life mainly because I don’t want to bore my readers away but recently my wife and I had something happen which kinda drove…
Don’t believe everything you see about Windows 7 →
In the midst of all the hype around Windows 7 news and affairs, CrunchGear and TechCrunch shows us how gullible some bloggers (and readers) have become. I would like to direct your attention to…
Great AIR Apps I Use →
Lately, my list of AIR applications has grown tremendously. So I thought I’d share the AIR apps I have installed and actually use on a weekly basis. This post was inspired by JeffisaGeek’s…
Social Networking Cold War: FB To Open Source... →
Too little, too late? TechCrunch reports that Facebook is about to open source its platform as developers flee the service for the open source Google led Open Social initiative.
Bebo…
Fantasy →
Have you seen ScoutJet yet? →
I was going through my logs this afternoon adding more stuff to the stats filters to try and keep my stats as clean as possible when I noticed a new address being listed with a URL of …
Windows 7 - a whole lot of assumptions so far →
Today must have been let’s flood the blogosphere today with a whole lot of nothing day as it seemed to be all about Windows 7 on just about every Windows oriented blog that I…
Microsoft Mix Remixed →
It’s interesting that Animoto chose to show Ballmer during the low point in the song
It's Clay Shirky's Internet, We Just Live In It →
I can’t remember when, exactly, I discovered Clay Shirky, but I suspect it was around 2003 or so. I sent him an email about micropayments, he actually answered it, and we had a rather nice…
Facebook Confirms fbOpen Initiative →
Facebook sent us the following statement this afternoon:
“We’re working on an open-source initiative that is meant to help application developers better understand Facebook Platform and more…